I’m not sure if anyone else has been paying attention to what has been going on over at Reddit.
I’m permanently suspended from the site, so I can no longer post, but I have been a member of /r/conspiracy over there for probably almost 10 years now.
EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE was on the same page and “mental wavelength” up until something major happened - the Trump presidency - which I’d like to add is the very reason these forums we’re on now even exist today.
It began with a very slow influx of “shills” arguing with users. Next, came the users saying things like “all of these Trumpers infiltrated our sub”.
Next, came a major shift that ALL politicians are bad, and that “it’s a big club and you aren’t in it”.
As of this last week, the temperature has finally been cranked up to boil the frogs alive. A top comment in one of the posts stated something along the lines of:
“It’s clear that both parties aren’t the same, the republicans are against the people and for their own interests, while at least the democrats are willing to fight for the people”.
I always knew the sub was slowly being infiltrated and taken over, but it had to happen slowly, or everyone would jump ship.
There was always at least some good discussion, but as of this last week, I really think that sub is now 90% infiltrated. The only thing that surprises me are vaccines. Shills in that sub don’t seem to touch on that subject.
Anyways, there is a VERY CLEAR plan to get people to quit supporting Trump, and label any of his supporters as stupid or extremists.
I just hope everyone is seeing what I’m seeing!
People are downvoting articles that tell the truth about the Jan 6th torture/political prisoners and Alex Jones. /r/conspiracy use to at least have some decent stuff over the past few months, but lately it's been incredibly compromised.
I scan the site for nuggets bu honestly I think we have better content here, and we probably have a user base that is 100 times smaller.
I think what keeps people on Reddit is how fluid and easy it is to use, more so than just because of the larger population. I use Apollo for Reddit and it’s just so nice it’s hard to go from that to this site
i'm probably not unique in that there's a handful of other subs i like to visit (WayoftheBern, wallstreetbets, GME), and I visit r/conspiracy since i'm already redditing. however, it's stopped being a daily go-to for genuine alternative viewpoints.
It’s Fun to browse by NEW and see what’s getting down voted to oblivion
bots are downvoting